Day of the Dead
“Todos Santos, Día de Muertos” is one of the most commemorative dates for Mexican society. Octavio Paz describes a José Gorostiza’s poem about death by saying: “In this drama without personages, since all things are nothing more than reflections, disguises of a suicide that dialogues with itself in a language of mirrors and echoes, neither is intelligence something other than a reflection, and the most pure form of death, of death in love with itself” … Fragment from El laberinto de la Soledad, 1947.
We all (Mexicans) laugh at “La Muerte”, without realising that it is the “La Muerte” who laughs at herself and at everyone of us.
We would like to invite you all to our Day of the Dead celebration, which will be on Friday 14th November, starting at 5.30pm, room UG04, Learning Centre. This time, our celebration will have the following activities:
| 5.30pm | Set the altar and offerings to the departed (All) |
| Be part of this traditional and beautiful activity, help us to build the altar and, why not, offer something to the dead. | |
| 7.00pm | Shadow puppetry (Randia and Erik) |
| “Ciudad Límite” and “pepitop lünadop” bring a small piece of shadow puppetry and Mexican music, performed by our members Randia Escalante and Erik Baqueiro, that involves this profound view of “La Muerte”, within some Latin American legends such as “La Llorona” and the “X’tabay”. | |
| 7.30pm | Mexican film: Macario (1960) |
| Excellent film for this day! It tells a tale of a poor, helpless peasant, with a wife and five children, who meets, in the forest, the Devil, God, and Death, and ask him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. |
Come, enjoy and celebrate with us the Day of the Dead … It’s FREE!!!
If you want to know more about the Day of the Dead, please click here.
UPDATE: We will have “Pan de muerto”, a delicious bread eaten in Mexico these days. So, come early and you will have the chance to try it!
